{"id":1120,"date":"2009-12-26T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:10","slug":"meeting-the-christmas-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/meeting-the-christmas-dogs","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the Christmas Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is absolutely no way that Christmas Day could have been any better. At least for those of us who DON’T subscribe to “Dreaming of a White Christmas” or go around singing “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow”. Oh no, Snow is a four letter word to me. I love a green Christmas most of all. But yesterday was a bonus, it was a Green and Sunny Christmas in Victoria, the place where lawns green up in winter!<\/p>\n

So after all the gifts were opened, the mince tarts eaten and a hearty brunch had by all, Will and I went off for our Christmas Day Walk. We chose the Gorge Walkway and were rewarded with Great Scenery either way, going up
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or down the walkway.<\/p>\n

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And then as an added bonus, we got to meet the Christmas Dogs. First was this cute little guy in a red sweater sporting reindeer yet.<\/p>\n

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Next we met the little black poodle, a quiet fellow, dressed up in red. \u00a0Such a good color on him.<\/p>\n

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Our next meeting was with a little black and white with a curled up tail.
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Who soon drew the interest of another dog.<\/p>\n

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This quickly became a great tangle of leads as each twirled around trying to get a good sniff. You’ll just have to imagine it. We were having enough trouble trying not to get caught up in the leashes.<\/p>\n

And then there she was….the tiniest little charmer in a Santa suit. She had so much energy that we had quite a time trying to get a photo. Almost got her entirely in the shot here…
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Oh only the nose here…
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And finally a cute photo looking up at us.
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The Christmas dogs made the day. All dressed up to celebrate by their proud and loving owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is absolutely no way that Christmas Day could have been any better. At least for those of us who DON’T subscribe to “Dreaming of a White Christmas” or go around singing “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow”. Oh no, Snow is a four letter word to me. I love a green Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,1,578],"tags":[486,487,212,131],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-musings","category-sites-of-victoria","tag-christmas-day-walk","tag-christmas-dogs","tag-gorge-walkway","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}